# 民法 / Civil Code — 第五百九十四条 (Article 594) - Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号 - English title "Civil Code": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五百九十四条 (Article 594)（借主による使用及び収益） — address `art-594` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-594 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-594 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五百九十四条（借主による使用及び収益） — (Borrower's Use and Profit) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-594 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-594 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-594 **第一項** 借主は、契約又はその目的物の性質によって定まった用法に従い、その物の使用及び収益をしなければならない。 art-594/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-594/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-594/par-1 A borrower must make use of and take the profits of the thing in compliance with the method of use specified by the contract or by the nature of the thing which is the subject matter of the contract. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 借主は、貸主の承諾を得なければ、第三者に借用物の使用又は収益をさせることができない。 art-594/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-594/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-594/par-2 A borrower may not allow third parties to make use of or take the profits of the thing without obtaining the approval of the lender. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 借主が前二項の規定に違反して使用又は収益をしたときは、貸主は、契約の解除をすることができる。 art-594/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-594/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-594/par-3 If a borrower has made use of or taken the profits of the thing in violation of the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the lender may cancel the contract. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-594/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第五百九十四条第一項 (Article 594, paragraph (1)), art-594/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-594/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-594/par-1 - art-594/par-3: 前二項 → 民法 第五百九十四条第二項 (Article 594, paragraph (2)), art-594/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-594/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-594/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第五百九十四条第三項（借主による使用及び収益） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-594/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-594/par-3 - 民法 第六百十六条第一項（賃借人による使用及び収益） — https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-616/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-616/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11